Heating and brazing torch



My E94. M. a.. ROGERS lIIEA'ITINC': AND BRAZING TORCH Filed Oct. 29, 1946 Patented July 6, i948 STTES PATENT OFFICE HEATING AND BaAzrNc. 'ronca Malone L. Rogers. Portsmouth, Va. Application ontstelzs, 1946, serial No., 106,492

2 claims. (ci. 15s-21.4)

This invention relates to improvements in torches of that type having a single gas supply duct, adapted to use propane or like gas having a slow rate of flame propagation, and including 'a tip which affords a relatively non-intense llame jet such as is required for heating and brazing metals.

It is well known in the art that torch tips have the objectionable fault of getting very hot in use and transmitting the heat to the rest of the torch. An important object of the present invention, therefore, is to provide a torch tip that will be free of this heating fault.

Another object is to provide an improved heating and brazing torch tip having an inner passage supplying the gas to a heating llame iet, and means surrounding the inner passage to supply the gas about the heating name jet.

A further object is to provide an improved heating and brazing torch tip which includes central and outer tip members constructed and assembled to facilitate ready and economical manufacture, and to eiectively supply the gas through an inner passage to an inner heating jetand through holes surrounding the inner passage to and about the heating flame jet.

The exact nature of the present invention, as well as more speciilc objects and features thereof, will become apparent from the following description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure l is a view partly in s ide elevation, partly broken away, and partly in central longitudinal section, of aheating and brazing torch tip constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the torch tip shown in Figure l, drawn on afsmaller scale;

Figure 3` is an end elevational view looking towards the left of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a transverse section taken on line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Referring in detail tothe drawing, B indicates the outer tip member or body which has a tapered tip end 6 provided with an axial opening or passage 1 and formed with a tubular axial extension 8 whose bore forms a continuation of the opening or passage l. Also, the tip end 8-is provided with a circular series of small holes therethrough as at 9 parallel with and about the opening l. The member or body also has a main bore 9'. while a socket III is provided centrally of and in the inner wall of the tip end l. Atv its inner end, the body 5 is provided with a counterbore I2.

The numeral Il indicates the inner tip member which has a hollow cylindrical inner end portion I3 that is snugly received in the counterbore I2 and seated at its outer end on the tapered shoulder I4 provided in the outer member or body 5 at the juncture ofthe main bore 9' with the counterbore I2. Theinner tip member II also includes a reduced tubular outer end portion I5 that projects axially from the outer end of the inner portion I3 and ,is snugly received in the central socket III so that the inner tip member is firmly supported in place with the bore of the outer end portion I5 aligned with the opening or passage 1. A relatively large capacity gas chamber` I8 is thus provided about the part of the portion I5 withinthe main bore 8'. A plurality of holes I1 are drilled through the inner end of the inner portion I3 of the innertip member II to afford communication between the interior ot portion I3 and chamber I 6. Thus, gas supplied to the interior of the portion I3 will pass through the bore of portion I5. opening 1 and the bore of extension 8 for supplying the gas to a central heating llame jet.' Gas is also supplied from the interior of portion I3 through holes Il to chamber I6, from lwhence the gas flows through the holes 9 to augment the central heating flame iet. This gas issuing from the holes 9 about the central flame jet draws air over the outside surface of the tip body and thus prevents heat radiating back into and heating the tip and the rest of the torch. Also, the gas issuing from holes 9 keeps the flame at the outer end of the extension I 8 and in spaced relation to the end of the body 5 about said extension l, so that objectionable heating of the tip is further minimized as further indicated in Figure 2.

The inner portion I3 has an inwardly projecting extension I8 beyond the inner end o1' the body 5, and this extension I8 receives an end of a single gas supply duct I9 that has a threaded inner end 20 to facilitate connection oi' the tip to an ordinary torch handle provided as usual on an end of an ordinary gas supply hose, not shown. The parts 5,-II and I9 are permanently adjoined in assembled relation by providing welding illlets 2| and 22, of metal, about the extension Il of portion I3 and about the duct I8 adjacent the extension I8. The whole unit may then be plated exterlorly to provide a finished construction.

In operation, the end 20 of duct I9 is connected to a torch handle in the well known way, and the gas is supplied to said duct I9 so tha-t it passes into the portion i3 of the inner tip member II and through the central bore of portion I'B, opening l and the bore of extension 8 to supply the central heating iiame Jet. The gas also passes from portion i3 through holes i1 and mls the chamber I5 so that a constant supply of das is aii'orded in the latter to pass outwardly through the holes 9 about the central heating ilame jet so as to augment the latter.

From the foregoing description. it is believed that the construction, operation and advantages of the present invention will be readily understood and appreciated by those skilled in the art. Modications and changes in construction are contemplated, such as fall within the scope of the invention as claimed.

What I claim is:

1. A heating and brazing tip comprising an outer tip member having a main bore intermediate its ends. a. counterbore at its inner end. and a central axial opening through its tip end, an

` integral tubular extension on the tip end of said outer tip member having a bore aligned with said central opening, said outer tip member further having a circular series of small holes therethrough parallel with and about said central opening. and an inner tip member having a hollow cylindrical inner portion iitted in said counterbore oi' the outer tip member and' a reduced axial outer portion extending through the main bore to define a. surrounding large capacity gas chamber, said outer portion having an axial bore aligned with said central opening, the bore of said outer portion and the central opening and the bore of said extension supplying gas to a central heating flame from said hollow inner portion of the inner tip member, said inner portion having holes through its outer end leading to- -said sas chamber. gas flowing from said gas charnber through said holes supplying a retricted amount of gas from said 'chamber about said heating iiame and keeping Ithe latter forwardly at the forward end oi said extension.

2. The construction dened in claim 1, wherein the tip end of the outer tip member has a central socket in the inner wall thereof, said axial outer portion of the inner tip member having its outer ,end seated in said socket. 4

MALONE L. 

